Defining God
Despite repeated requests to define and prove their God's existence, the Christians who contact me are either unwilling or unable to do so.
Despite repeated requests to define and prove their God's existence, the Christians who contact me are either unwilling or unable to do so.
So, in the spirit of friendly cooperation I thought I'd help them out. Then the Christians can debunk when necessary, call misinterpreted rubbish when they think it appropriate then give me their own definitions and proof of their God.
I promise to approach this task with as much objectivity, sensitivity and proportionality as I can muster. Which probably won't be much...
A bad craftsman and a shoddy builder - look no further than your own body for proof of that. A decal from the Institute of Master Craftsmen will never adorn the side of His celestial builders van.
Any one reading Genesis with an open mind can see what a total cock-up God made of the whole thing - He just wasn't up to the task. Even after two attempts He still had to flood everything in the entire world and then starting over.
He did not even have the good manners to take Mary out for dinner and a movie before He made love to her, He just sent down one of his angels to tell her that his boss was going to have her.
Notice that she wasn't asked, just told. Where I come from, non-consensual sex is called rape.
He didn't even hang around afterwards to share a cigarette. No thank-you note, no box of chocs, no single rose left on the pillow. He didn't call, He didn't write.
And I bet He made her sleep on the wet patch.
No wonder the CPA has been trying to find Him, He owes 2000 years of child maintenance payments.
I think we're all familiar with God's Machiavellian machinations and how He manoeuvred His son into being nailed onto a lump of wood.
If He's omniscient and able to see into the future, and omnipotent and able to prevent it, why does He allows the brown sticky stuff to hit the ventilation system again and again without lifting a finger to stop it?. Don't His "children" deserve to be treated with at least a modicum of respect?
Prideful
"And God saw that it was good".
So, He takes pride in His work, which is fair enough but when John baptised Jesus God said
"You are my son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased".
So God, who many Christians believe is also Jesus, is pleased by and loves Jesus, who is also God.
Seems a clear cut case of over-bearing, narcissistic pride.
"You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God..."
What more needs to be said?
Anyone who can conceive, design and build a place like hell is one sick, twisted, sadistic psychopath.
This is just plain sick.
I try to be respectful of the beliefs of others, after all, we've only got this one life and this one planet, but how can you respect those who go to such great lengths to worship and defend a being that demonstrates such psychologically and physically abusive tendencies?
Could it be some form of the Stockholm Syndrome where they love the abuser and seem to have a pathological need to defend their God?
Any worship towards this being should be directed at the ground in which He should be buried
All life on earth destroyed - except a few on a small boat - because of the actions of God's imperfectly designed humans.
Why couldn't He have just wiped away humankind? Why not just remove the evil ones? Surely God knew who they were; after all, He made them the same as He made evil and introduced sin into His creation.
Flooding a problem might work with anthills but flooding an entire world truly defines the depth of His megalomaniacal and tyrannical personality.
If everyone was really as sinful as made out then that would have been a good time to parachute in His son.
If the whole idea was to rid the world of wicked people, did His plan work? Is the world now free of sin and wickedness?
Many Christian theologians say that we are here to love and worship God, and Psalms say that worship is also an expression of awe, submission, and respect toward God. Seems that God can't get enough of it and is not happy unless He has billions of people worshipping and telling Him how wonderful He is.
That's gluttonous, plain and simple.
God needs your money! Give us money and get into heaven! This is about the only thing all the vast number of Christian denominations can agree on - God needs a constant supply of money.
Unless they're lying and are just fleecing the flock, God actually does want your money. As He's got nothing to spend it on He must be accumulating it for it's own sake.
He's made it perfectly clear that He lacks a belief in god/s or a higher power - the definition of an atheist - and if atheists are hellbound sinners, why isn't God in hell?
Pick just about any book of the Old Testament to witness the wrath and burning anger of this genocidal maniac.
According to Genesis, after God finished His creative efforts He rested for a day but, if He is omnipotent, God can't get tired because He has access to an infinite supply of energy and should be able to create an infinite number of universes without breaking into a sweat.
Looks like He was just slobbing out.
So, as a working definition of the Christian god let's start with: sadistic sexual predator, avaricious, self indulgent couch potato with psychologically and physically abusive tendencies. A bad mannered, inattentive father figure and a spiteful, vicious, vindictive avaricious glutton.
I would not like to be in God's shoes when His 10,000 year review comes around:
God's area manager: " Yahveh! Get in here! You've some 'splainin' to do! How come you've managed to commit all the Seven Deadly Sins and what's this I hear about you meddling in evolution?
You know company policy on evolution is: amoeba - creationist - ape - human - theist - atheist - star child...."
As for proving the existence of God: See this bonfire? Therefore God exists.